2023
Statistics Colloquium: Johannes Schmidt-Hieber
4:30–5:30 pm Jones 303
JOHANNES SCHMIDT-HIEBER, Department of Statistics, University of Twente
“Statistical learning in biological neural networks”
CAM and Stats Student Seminar: Melissa Adrian
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 226
MELISSA ADRIAN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Data Assimilation in Data-Driven Weather Forecasting: Pairing FourCastNet with the Auto-Differentiable Ensemble Kalman Filter”
CAM & DSI Joint Colloquium: Amit Singer
3:00–4:00 pm Jones 303
Joint Colloquium with The Data Science Institute
AMIT SINGER, Department of Mathematics, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics (PACM), & Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML), Princeton University
“Method of Moments in Cryo-EM”
Statistics Colloquium: Sara van de Geer
3:30–4:30 pm Jones 303
BAHADUR MEMORIAL LECTURES
Lecture 22 (May 1st and 4th)
SARA VAN DE GEER, Department of Mathematics, Seminar für Statistik (SfS), ETH Zürich
“Small noise, no regularization”
Student Seminar: Boxuan Zhou
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 304
Master’s Thesis Presentation
BOXUAN ZHOU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Donation-Based Ideal Points”
Student Seminar: Ke Xu
10:30–11:00 am Jones 304
Master’s Thesis Presentation
KE XU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“(Ⅰ) Metric Entropy Approaches in Estimating Instability of Inverse Problems and (Ⅱ) a Bayesian Latent Variable Framework in Multivariable Mendelian Randomization”
Statistics Colloquium: Yair Goldberg
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
YAIR GOLDBERG, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich
“Waning immunity of the BNT162b2 vaccine and the Israeli decision on a booster campaign”
Student Seminar: Mingyu Liu
2:00–2:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
MINGYU LIU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Bayesian Inference for the Plackett-Luce Ranking Model”
Student Seminar: Jimmy Melican
1:00–1:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
JIMMY MELICAN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Sharpness-Aware Minimization”
Statistics Colloquium: Sara van de Geer
4:30–5:30 pm Jones 303
BAHADUR MEMORIAL LECTURES
Lecture 22
SARA VAN DE GEER, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich
“Logistic regression with small Bayes error”